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NUnit 2.2 problem with VS 2005
I finally decided to start playing with the beta of VS 2005. First stop: Get some existing code working. So I take an API that I wrote, complete with unit tests and decide to give it a whirl. First NUnit coughs up a bad image format exception. This was quicky remedied by a Google search and a tript to James Newkirk's blog and I thought I was home free. NUNit GUI comes up, I pick my dll and all the tests appear in NUnit's treeview. As soon as I try to run a test I get this:
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Norton Systemworks 2005 install disaster
Last night I bought Norton Systemworks 2005. I had 2003 on my laptop and figured it was time to upgrade since they weren't supporting it anymore. When I tried to run their live update I always got an error updating the common client and their site said something about it not being supported.
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Is System a reserved namespace in any combination?
I was creating a class with a namespace like this : MyCompany.System.MyLibrary. When I tried to use code from namespaces like System.Data in the same class the compiler could not find System.Data.
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Multiple web services exposing the same object
I have run into a problem that I have solved but am not pleased with the solution. I have an API that I have written a web service skin for. Here is the general idea:
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A thought on sharing electronic media
This whole debate on illegal sharing of electronic media brings up an interesting thought (well to me, anyway). If you create something that the masses can easily make a copy of, they will. Pure and simple, legally or illegally.
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Debugging WSE
Have any of you successfully debugged a WSE application using NUnit? I had the initial version of some web services in a solution with a separate NUnit test project and I was able to debug from the unit tester into the services.
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Commenting enums
Can anyone tell the proper coding convention for xml comments for an enum in C#?
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Where's the T-Shirts?
I've been too busy to blog lately but I read all of you every day. Anyway - I have a burning question I need answered. Where can I get .Net clothing like T-Shirts, hats, etc?
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Spammed on my cellphone!
Imagine this. Its a peek of what is to come. We could end up paying to have these jerks spam us.
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Page 23
Let's get on the bandwagon of page 23 Meme (picked from)
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Oops!
Sorry, I forgot to include why I think blogs are awesome in my last post. I forget where, but I read that some people prefer the newsgroups to weblogs. I look at the newsgroups as a place to ask a targeted technical question. I can do that here on my weblog, but the weblogs also give all of us a chance to talk about things at random. So I get more bang for the buck here.
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Lesson learned and aren't blogs just awesome?
OK, I'll admit it. I was slightly off base in my criticism of the Whidbey delay. I was just reading Lorenzo's blog about the Whidbey CTP and it got me thinking about this whole early insight thing. We are seeing something the likes of which I have never been privy to before at this magnitude : early bits and lots of early information.
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Job opening in Connnecticut
Continuum Performance Systems is looking for a full time ASP.Net / C# programmer. You must have experience with .Net and be highly motivated to learn. HTML, javascript, css and xml are required.
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Ready for the firestorm - The Yukon-Whidbey delay round 2
Disclaimer : This is not a flame.
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My 2 cents on the Yukon-Whidbey delay
Are you kidding me? For what possible reason could a database hold up the release of a development tool? Is Visual Studio dependent on Yukon to work? If it is we are all in trouble. My client uses Oracle so Yukon makes no difference to me at this time.
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Getting some security religion
We recently had a security consultant come in to give us some guidance. Since I am the developer, not the database or network engineer, I learned a few things but the one that really got me was the use of ports with Oracle instance setups. Hackers always look for the obvious, and usually that means default settings that never get changed.
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Gearing up for web services
We finally have a project that looks like a good candidate for web services. I have played around with some samples, but now I am looking for some meat. I have a basic understanding of what's going on but I am very concerned about security. I am aware that WSE is ready for release so I'll be looking into that.
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NUnit tip for ConfigurationSetings.AppSettings
Today I had to unit test a dll that will read the web.config file from my web app. Here is the setup
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A question about built in Oracle security
I have a web app that needs to work with a PowerBuilder app's database. This means sharing tables for user rights and other such things. The PB app uses Oracle's logons so the user id and password are passed in the connection string. To authenticate a user they are telling me to get the id and password and try to connect to Oracle and trap an Oracle exception if the connection fails because of invalid credentials.
Is there a better way to find out if the user is valid in the Oracle database? Our current database has our own table for users so this is not an issue in the web app, but we are combining databases and would like to have the PB app maintain users, which means my tables wil go away. We don't want to maintain two ways of logging on. -
Do MS uninstalls really uninstall?
I want to share two adventures which I would have thought were totally unrelated that I had recently in the hopes that I can save someone else some pain.
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Configuration Settings
I am looking to have my business rules dll read a key from the web config file using ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings. So far my dll which is shared by two test apps seems to get the right value depending on the calling app. Are there any issues doing this? I had the settings in the registry but now we are going to have two or more web apps using the library so I want to read a key out of the config file. I don't want the apps to have to pass this to the dll.